John Bull's Six Counties
SIR,—It is difficult to imagine Ulster MP Sir Knox Cunningham not being aware that, as a rule, workers from Scotland, Wales and England do not chase jobs as far afield as Northern Ireland. Against whom, therefore, is the Northern Ireland 'Safeguarding of Employment Act 1947' directed? Very obviously it is against the native Irish Catholic worker from the Republic, whose increase in the North, where there are already a half-million, may represent a political hazard for the regime which Sir Knox Cunningham represents at Westminster. It is within this context that the Pakistani will get a labouring job before a workman from the Republic, in North- ern Ireland.
A more realistic name for this piece of legisla- tion would surely have been 'The Safeguarding cif the British Unionist Majority in Northern Ireland Act.'
Heath House, Hanspsicad, NI4/3
L. T. PEABODY
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